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Anyone notice this has a GPS and Magnetometer (compass). How useful will this be as a GPS without internet connectivity (wifi only)? A 7" tablet would be a fa
by pragmatic 14y ago
Anyone notice this has a GPS and Magnetometer (compass).
How useful will this be as a GPS without internet connectivity (wifi only)?
A 7" tablet would be a fantastic GPS device form factor.
- nodemaker 14y agoYou could tether your phone's cellular data.
- desigooner 14y agoOffline Google Maps in the next iteration of Android would mean that you could download the maps offline for the area you usually travel to/around and be able to use it as a GPS (not sure how the new offline maps would work w.r.t. re-routing and all that)
- huggyface 14y agoOffline Google Maps in the next iteration of Android This is actually in the next iteration of maps...or rather the last iteration as it was released yesterday. If you upgrade Maps on an Android device, you get this functionality.
- ars 14y agoICS has had this for a while now.
- huggyface 14y agoThe mapping application is simply an app, having been decoupled from the OS back in, I think, 2.3? The labs functionality for offline access has been around for a while, but has been baked into the core app now. The point being that it isn't an 2.3, 3.0, 4.0, or 4.1 feature. It's a Google Maps feature.
- dabeeeenster 14y agoI think routing requires a data connection.
- ars 14y agoPartially. It can reroute some roads without a data connection, but not major changes.
- rdl 14y agoI would love to see this for iOS, although I guess it's not likely.
- mutewinter 14y agoA new feature in Jellybean allows you to download city maps for offline usage. http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-maps-offline-android/ http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/27/google-maps-offline-andro...
- pragmatic 14y agoI think I just found my reason (if I needed any) to get this tablet.
- justincormack 14y agoThats been a Labs maps feature for a while in ice cream sandwich. Very useful when visiting places you dont want to spend money on expensive bandwidth, use it a lot...
- Achshar 14y agoYou can always tether from your companion ssmartphone. Or use Google maps's offline which were launched yesterday too.
- bitwize 14y agoI really could have used Google Maps offline a year ago when I was trying to get around Osaka. The GPS worked, but the map display didn't... unless I was around one of Japan's rare, free Wifi hotspots.
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